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Just Keep

Dory from Finding Nemo is famous for the phrase “Just Keep Swimming”

I think she had it wrong, I think the key to inner life happiness is to

Just

Keep

Spinning

Life is throwing me a curve ball. So I’m doing what makes me happy for a day or so. Cuddles with my wonderful boys (both hamster shaped and human) and with my new girlies whom I’ll post about later when life, well when life just gets back to normal for a day or two. ProTip: Watching Rats try and work out what to do with a hard boiled egg with the shell still on= priceless.

And Spinning.

Spinning for me is so much more meditative than knitting or spinning. In a fit of terrible luck my most commonly used needle (5mm) broke yesterday. It was a cheap Chinese one, part of the large sets on Ebay for £20 or so, I think I’ve had it around 4 years. It didn’t have a bad life, but replacing it is out of the question at the moment while I’m looking for work. I also broke a 4mm plastic crochet hook this morning although luckily that one was a freebie. So I chose to spin today.

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This is some Grey Norwegian that came with my wheel nearly 2.5 years ago. I am still very much a beginning spinner and I must say I don’t think I will buy this fibre again. I found it incredibly sticky in a bad way. Not sure if the storage method I used (in the plastic bags it came in) caused it to felt or not but it sure felt like I had to pull very hard to get the fibres to separate every step of the way, and when the fibre split because I’d gone too thin it was incredibly hard to get it to reattach again, and I’m not spinning angel hair here! I’m currently however working on some white Norwegian and it’s an absolute dream to spin so not quite sure why I had such troubles.

Troubles aside, sometimes you’ve just go to keep on spinning.

(P.s Windows Live Writer is AWESOME!)

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